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Post by maddogblues on Feb 1, 2010 18:07:14 GMT -5
In all my years I've wondered about how can people be so stupid. When I was a kid my parents did nothing to keep me from being drafted to kill little brown people in Viet Nam. It took me a while to figure it out and be able to state it. I understood it but I did not understand the mechanism. What I have realized is that human consciousness is infinitely malleable. With specific kinds of information an ordinary person can be lead to conceive of atrocities as necessary for the general good of society. This has its upside as well. Suppose generally positive information inputs replaced the call to demonize the other side and to kill them before they get us. Information is a creative function of the reality we inhabit. In 2004 when I stopped watching television I noticed that in just a few weeks all my enemies had vanished without a shot being fired. Choose your information sources carefully, left or right that information will make you into something the information providers want to see come about. I see the left is just as rabid as the right. Good cop bad cop. My solution is to limit man made information drastically and look at something with a decent track record. For me that is the natural world, the universe in general. That is the arbiter for me because well it has a consistent track record for success over billions and billions of years. www.archive.org/details/tao08
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